The complainant alleged that the actor had insulted the Indian soldiers by passing derogatory remarks and that a case of sedition be filed against him, he said.

“We are looking into the complaint,” Mr Chand said, adding that no police case has been registered in this regard. A complaint was filed against the actor at Andheri police station in Maharashtra on October 4.

A TV channel had called Mr Puri to join a debate about the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association’s (IMPPA) indefinite ban on Pakistani artistes from working in Indian projects after the Uri attack.